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A judge of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled on Friday that when the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 reduced the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) shared-responsibility payment for not obtaining health insurance to $0, the provision ceased being a tax, making it an invalid exercise of Congress’s power to tax. This does not [...]
Indian President Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil announced Monday that the government will work to eradicate corruption. In her address to both houses of Parliament to open the budget session, Patil stated that India will take...
A US military tribunal on Friday sentenced Sudanese Guantanamo Bay detainee Noor Uthman Mohammed to 14 years in prison following a plea agreement in which he admitted to helping al Qaeda and...
A jury in the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania reached a split decision on Friday in the corruption trial of former Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella, convicting him of 12 counts, including racketeering, money...
A Pakistani court on Monday indicted police guard Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, accused of assassinating liberal politician and governor of Pakistan's Punjab province Salman Taseer for opposing the nation's blasphemy law . Qadri reportedly told the...
A federal judge of the US District Court of the Central District of California on Friday held that the city of Los Angeles violated the Americans With Disabilities Act by not accounting for...
Amnesty International (AI) on Friday denounced the detention of British resident Shaker Aamer at Guantanamo Bay , calling it a "mockery of justice". Aamer has been held by the US since 2002 on...
Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on Monday began selecting the jury in the corruption trial of former Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella for his role in a juvenile...
The US and Russia on Saturday formally inaugurated the New START treaty , an agreement intended to reduce nuclear arms in both countries. At the security conference in Munich, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
